Volume 25, Number 8 · May 18, 1978
Live Souls
By V.S. Pritchett
Russia in Original Photographs 1860-1920
by Marvin Lyons, edited by Andrew Wheatcroft
Scribner's, 212 pp., $20.00
Readers of Russian literature and history in the czarist period are in debt to Professor Lyons, a Canadian military historian, for his first album of photographs: Nicholas II: The Last Tsar. He now moves on to the last scene of the Russian tragedy, in a magnificent volume that ends with a few pictures of the early street riots of the revolution, the civil war, the flight of the émigrés who got away from the southeast, and the disappearance of the ruling class. The scores of pictures are a selection from tens of thousands, mainly drawn from family albums, European collections, and private donors. (It does not appear, as far as I can tell, that any come from Soviet archives.)
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